girls:
233 births since 1990
#5483 (4th percentile)
boys:
320 births since 1990
#4266 (7th percentile)
overall:
553 births since 1990
#7186 (7th percentile)
The name Donyae is the #7,186 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 553 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 7.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,266 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 320 births since 1990. For girls, it ranks #5,483 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 233 births since 1990.
Donyae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 . Birth data for Donyae is available in 31 out of the 33 years between 1990 and 2022 (28 years for boys and 22 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Donyae has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (57.9% of all recorded births). In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Donyae were boys. Interestingly, until around 1996, the name was more popular for girls (54.0% girls from 1990 to 1995), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (59.4% boys from 1996 to 2022).
For boys, Donyae reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #777) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Donyae reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #875) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donyae".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Donyae.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Donyae", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Donyae.
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Donyae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.4% confident that Donyae is pronounced as DAH-nyay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is doh-NYAY, at 24.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Donyae? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Donyae. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Donyae, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like D AA1 N Y EY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker